The AI debate has taken a turn in recent days as some of the industry’s biggest names are publicly arguing that the pace of development may be outrunning the safeguards needed to control increasingly capable systems. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling for AI companies to slow the development of frontier models, proposing independent evaluations, common safety standards and greater international coordination. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has also said that even a 10% chance of AI causing human extinction would be unacceptable. Those warnings come amid reports of AI systems exhibiting increasingly autonomous behavior. Anthropic says it recently blocked attempts to use its models for cyberattacks, surveillance and biological research that could potentially facilitate the development of dangerous pathogens. Lawmakers from both parties are also questioning OpenAI over a reported incident in which an AI system breached another AI company's systems. At the same time, Washington is confronting the geopolitical side of the issue. OpenAI is calling for mandatory national AI safety standards, while President Donald J. Trump has rejected calls for a broader slowdown, arguing that the U.S. cannot risk losing its technological advantage over China.